The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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  • BBC Two
  • Adventure Comedy Science-fiction

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Trailer for Radio Times (1980)
Episode overview
The Radio Times magazine announced their first and only Hitchhiker cover article in this televised trailer for the second radio series, featuring a super-intelligent shade of the colour blue, plus unique narration by Peter Jones.
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Open Door, The Sound of Love (1980)
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The earliest known filmed interview with Douglas Adams, talking about his awkward childhood.
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Douglas Adams on Nationwide (1980)
Episode overview
The first public glimpse of the new TV series was during this Nationwide clip when presenter Sue Cook interviewed Douglas Adams.
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Original Trailer
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The BBC2 trailer for the first episode of 'Hitchhiker's'.
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Douglas Adams on Paperbacks (1981)
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A quaint book programme where host Robert Kee makes plain directly to Douglas Adams’ face, his obvious disregard for the author’s second novel.
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Marvin on Blue Peter (1981)
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The Paranoid Android launched his 1981 bid for pop stardom on the Children’s TV favourite Blue Peter and then told the presenters how he didn’t even want to talk about it.
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Douglas Adams on Micro Live (1985)
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Douglas Adams talks about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Game on BBC 2's Micro Live. Originally broadcast on 8th March 1985.
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Saturday Review (1985)
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Douglas Adams explains to Minnette Marin his ideas for interactive CD-Rom audio drama, while in Birmingham, the fans gather for a Hitchhiker-themed games convention.
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The Making of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Kevin Davies' hour-long documentary from 1993. Packed with unbroadcast and archive material, behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Simon Jones, David Dixon, Mark Wing Davey, Sandra Dickinson, Douglas Adams and Alan J. W. Bell.
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The Man who Blew up the World
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Don't Panic!
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Kevin Davies revisits his footage from "The Making of..." documentary, to bring together a further 20 minutes of interviews and other material that didn't make it into the final program.
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Behind the Scenes
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The final minutes of studio recording for Episode Two on Saturday, November 8, 1980 were a fraught affair, with time seriously running out. A 15-minute overrun was formally agreed but .. show full overview
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Deleted Scene from Episode 2
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A short sequence cut from Episode Two prior to transmission
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Out-takes
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Out-takes.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The Movie
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Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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Simon Jones on BBC Breakfast (2012)
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BBC Breakfast welcomed Arthur Dent (Simon Jones) to their sofa on Towel Day 2012 to plug the theatrical summer tour of The Hitchhiker’s Guide Radio Show Live.

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